Henry Southard

Henry Southard (7 October 1747-22 May 1842) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NJ) from 1801 to 1811 (succeeding Mark Thomson and preceding James Morgan) and from 1815 to 1821 (succeeding Morgan and preceding James Matlack).

Biography
Henry Southard was born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York in 1747, and he moved with his parents to Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1755. He served as a Continental Army private and wagon master during the American Revolutionary War and then as a Justice of the Peace from 1787 to 1792, in the General Assembly from 1797 to 1799 and in 1811, and in the US House of Representatives from 1801 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1821. He died in 1842, and his sons Isaac Southard and Samuel L. Southard later became involved in politics.